Preparing Sales and Use Tax Returns:

  - Review all pending online banking transactions
  - Enter any missing deposits, sales receipts that go into Chase, invoices, etc.
    - This might be a good time to organize taxable sales records.
  - Review CC register and make sure vendor/account are correct for all transactions
  - Reconcile CC (using paper statements)
    - This is good to do 1st because CC payments need to match downloaded bank acct transactions
  - Reconcile bank account
  - Print out Paypal All Transactions (with balance) one page at a time (grrr...)
  - Enter sales receipts for Paypal transactions
  - Match/add Paypal downloaded transactions
  - Verify balance every 1+ calendar days by taking balance from all transactions report and adding reserve as of that date
    - Add missing USPS transactions (grrrrr)
  - Go back and check that CC and bank are still ok (usually I mess up the acct transfers somehow)
  - Make sure ending balances of accounts look sane as of last day of the quarter
  - Run Memorized Reports for Sales and Use Tax (all of these use data from the last quarter)
    - Save each of these to an Excel spreadsheet
      - Total Sales (total sales.xls) - total goes on line 1 of the return
      - Taxable Sales Detail (taxable sales.xls) - the total from this sheet goes on line 2 of the return
      - Transaction List by Date (transaction list 2011 q4.xls)
  - Total and taxable sales go right into the tax return
  - To calculate use tax, open transaction list and total only taxable purchases
    - Need to use abs() to keep same sign for CC and bank charges
  - Enter taxable purchases and complete return
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